[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks, Caelyn. I used your patch but added a clause showing explicitly how do the unicode conversion. I decided to not add that to the datetime, docs, since they are already pretty clear. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> fixed stage: needs

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 31adcc4c4391 by R David Murray in branch '2.7': #5904: Add sentence about the encoding of strftime's result. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/31adcc4c4391 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

David Wolever added the comment: It may also be worth noting that the strftime formatters table now includes examples from different locales: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior This change was introduced about a year ago. -- ___

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Éric Araujo added the comment: This may help: http://blog.codekills.net/2013/04/13/strftime--table-of-locale-aware-formatters-in-different-locales/ -- nosy: +wolever ___ Python tracker _

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Caelyn McAulay added the comment: Added to Docs that strftime will return a locale dependent byte string. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +math_foo Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34940/issue5904.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- nosy: +ezio.melotti stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- assignee: georg.brandl -> d...@python nosy: +d...@python ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue5904] strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string

Changes by Georg Brandl : -- title: strftime docs do not explain locale affect on result string -> strftime docs do not explain locale effect on result string ___ Python tracker